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Will a judge break up Google?

WASHINGTON — Last summer, a federal judge, Amit Mehta, delivered a landmark ruling that found Google had illegally dominated online search. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its...

Will a Federal Judge Break Up Google? On Monday, April 21, 2025, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to fix the company’s online search monopoly. The outcome could alter Google and Silicon Valley. (Edmon de Haro/The New York

Facebook, the social network old-timer, turns 20

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Facebook, the social network old-timer, turns 20

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Phones track everything but their role in car wrecks

A highway sign encourages drivers to stop at a rest area for safe texting

Fit at 40: the revolutionary Apple Mac in numbers

Part of an early model central processing unit is seen on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, as the museum celebrates Mac's 40th birthday. — AFP

That smartphone in your hand changes how you walk

Hunching over a device can mess with your gait, slow you down, and poison your mood. And that’s before you trip and fall. (Niklas Wesner/The New York Times)

Reset your relationship with tech

Put distance between yourself and the dings and pings

Apple loosens grip on iPhone apps - with a catch

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How 2024 will be AI’s ‘leap forward’

Artificial intelligence is set to advance at a rapid rate, becoming more powerful and spreading into the physical world. (Victor Arce/The New York Times)

Turning to an old model to cut screen time

TheOrbic Journey V flip phone. (Orbic via The New York Times)

How strangers got my email from ChatGPT

A visualisation of a large email dataset from the Enron Corporation, which is often used to train artificial intelligence systems, like ChatGPT. — NYT

X users report global outage: monitoring site

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At Meta, millions of underage users were an open secret

Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users younger than 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019

Meet Mira Murati, the engineer now leading OpenAI

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Apple to improve green vs blue texting experience

Longstanding texting problems between Android and Apple owners will ease next year.

You paid $1,000 for an iPhone, but Apple still controls it

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